Joined: Mon Dec 01, 2008 6:43 pm Posts: 615 Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
amethystguy wrote:
Did none of you watch the Modern Marvels on History channel about diamonds? That last little snippet I think talked about micro diamonds from space...the guy had a whole vial full of them..they were itty bitty though..real itty bitty
I didn't watch that, but there was a show involving a new theory that all of the mega-fauna and even the Clovis people were actually wiped out by a comet/asteroid that hit the ice sheet up in Canada. They also used the micro diamonds as part of their theory. It was very interesting.
Joined: Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:38 am Posts: 142 Location: New Delhi,India
jamesdumar wrote:
Years ago i saw a 36" diamond saw get pinched by a large ( 20mm?) black diamond crystal at Bob Haags's place while slabbing a very large pallasite from Argentina.
It took the boys several hours to free the saw- the blade tried to go around the diamond and the saw became locked.
After they got the blade free, they came in from the other side with a small offset and the diamond was revealed.
The meteorite was full of gemmy olivine- i would have called it peridot.
interesting find
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